We have XM satellite in our car and we’ve recently discovered the XM Kid’s station. We love it. By “we” I do mean all of us. They play entertaining kids music by a a wide variety of artists from Laurie Berkener (LOVE her!) and the Muppets to more adult artists like the Barenaked Ladies who have a new Kid’s CD called “Snacktime” coming out in May. I love me some BNL!

Check out Cake’s version of Mahna Mahna. Dude. Cake! Cake is my go-to music for all night writing/working marathons. I completed the installation of an exhibit listening to nothing but Cake nearly 10 years ago. Ah, Cake.

Anyway. Where was I before I got sidetracked by the awesomeness that is Cake?

They also play the preteen/teenie bopper stuff like the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus/Hanna Montana. Everytime they play a song featuring a female leadsinger, my five year old daughter yells, “IS THIS HANNA MONTANA?”

The girl has been wondering around this afternoon saying “Robbie Schaefer’s Stuck in a Real Tall Tree” over and over again. It’s like some odd manifestation of Tourette’s. She’s referring to the show that plays from 6:00pm-10:00pm CST.

From the website:

Robbie Schaefer’s Mom wants you to know that he’s funny. Not weird-funny, just funny-funny. In addition to being the guitarist and songwriter for the acclaimed folk/pop band Eddie From Ohio, he released his first CD for kids, ‘Songs For Kids Like Us’, in 2006. He now brings his talent and extremely bald head to XMKiDS–where his show will occur from the top of a tree. Where he hangs out with his guitar. And a talking fish named Clarence. And where his Mom comes to visit and speaks to him through a megaphone. Okay, maybe he’s a little weird-funny. But his Mom thinks he’s the greatest.

I’m pretty sure Robbie Schaefer is weird funny too. But in a good way. He reminds me of Dr. Dimento, only for kids.

XM kids also plays gems like these:

Total Momsense! by Anita Renfroe

Most of us have seen this one on Youtube by now, but I think it’s hilarious that it’s now made it to the XM Kids station for regular rotation and entertainment for all the mom’s chauffeurring their children too and from school, playdates, and other activities.

TOAST! by Heywood Banks (this is a slightly more political version than the one played on XM Kids–the last verse is different.)

I just played that last one and my children heard it from upstairs. I heard screeches of “TOAST! YEAH TOAST!” as they scrambled down the stairs like a stampeeding herd of elephants.

Yes, they are that loud. Which is a nice segue into my personal favorite, “Mom’s Got a Headache, She Needs a Nap!” (Which I could not find anywhere online. At all. Help!)

When we heard that one the girl said, “Mom, sometimes we give you a headache too.”

Yes. Yes, they do.

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